I feel sad. We're missing out on APE this year and it looks like it was a good show this time. Deb has been sending forth photos of some friends and new readers~ (Even Anpan made a super cute new friend! Photos courtesy of Deb Aoki~)

So what are we doing here in Hawaii? Last minute prep for a number of things... Upcoming t-shirts were just handed off to the printers for screening, my cousin's daughter had her second birthday party this weekend, Scott's finishing up a number of things for work that are (inconveniently) due at the end of the month, and I have a BUNCH of strips and other projects to finish ASAP so I'm not completely stressed out when we return at the end of October. Eeps.

(I get this face from Scott a lot... can you tell? XD;; I accidentally starved him this morning and bought him a green tea from Starbucks and flatbread pizza from Jamba Juice to tide him over.... ^^;)

So all errands need to be run this weekend. First thing this morning, we hit C2F for it's monthly "open house" sale. C2F is an art supply distributor to schools and other businesses around Hawaii and normally not open to the public. Buuut~ if you're in the know, they send out newsletters announcing their monthly sales and all the artists come out in droves to pick up their art necessities at a great price.

While I was looking for inks for my fountain pens (none found), I happened across these:

Pilot Parallel Pens!

They're calligraphy pens and have had consistently high recommendations from fellow pen addicts. ^^ I held off of buying them from in my last order from JetPens and I'm sort of glad I did...

They were $5.99 each. o_o!

So I bought all three~

I'll be giving them a test drive later this weekend if I have some time. I definitely need to work on my penmanship first though. ^^;